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Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer prizewinning poet, reflecting on the late Carl Sandburg: "He was a largeness, and easy in his day. He stood large in what turned out to be (after much care) raw wheat, much blown by the wind...
...read Tolstoy's War and Peace. He was disappointed when he found it was not about cowboys and Indians, but he stuck with it nonetheless. He has read the book two or three times and counts it as one of his favorites. He was deeply moved by Sandburg's volumes on Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography...
...hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood in 1961, only to endure some lean years: the leaner they got, the fatter he got. Gradually Carr...
...other specials. Song of Myself (CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers a sketchy biography of Walt Whitman, which is really an excuse to hear a well-selected anthology of his poetry. Poetry in any form is rare on commercial television, and just hearing Whitman well read in a Carl Sandburg singsong by Rip Torn is reason enough for gratitude. But Jan Hartman's script confronts Whitman's homosexuality with good bluntness, and Torn, a gutsy actor who has long deserved better of his trade than he usually receives, plays the populist bard instead of embalming him. There...
...specific racial grounds but over the once bloody, somehow romantic battlegrounds of history. Buffs dragged their children in Yankee or Rebel caps over the cemetery farm land of Gettysburg, fast growing commercial. Book clubs offered multivolume histories such as Allan Kevins' The Ordeal of the Union and Carl Sandburg's grandiloquent Abraham Lincoln. Catton, with his 13 volumes, became the distinguished popularizer of the Civil War, his work deeply researched and written with a vivid immediacy...